JAMMU, Sep 6: J&K Bank was conferred with two awards at ‘IPE Asia Pacific HRM Congress Awards 2013’ in a gala function held at Vivanta Taj in Bangalore.

The awards were given to Mushtaq Ahmad, Chairman & CEO J&K Bank under the individual category ‘CEO with HR orientation’ and Abdul Rauf Bhat, President HRD under the category ‘HR Leadership Awards’. Abdul Rauf Bhat was also awarded with a citation of ‘30 Most Talented HR leaders in PSUs’.

The theme of the congress was ‘Sustainability & Growth in Challenging Times.’

Prof R K Mishra, Director Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) presented the awards and citations to the Zonal Head (South) Mukhtar Ahmad, who received these on behalf of the bank’s Chairman and President HRD.

CEO Canara Bank, CEO Vijaya Bank and Vice Chairman SBI were also present on the occasion.

Commenting upon the awards Abdul Rauf Bhat said, “Such acknowledgement encourages us to further improvise upon our HR practices and broaden our engagements with the contemporary frameworks of human resource development both in theoretical and realistic sense.”

Though we have systems in place to nurture best HR practices in the industry but we remain open to the changes to keep pace with evolving and integrating conditions of widening banking scenarios for future, he added.

The award, as per the communication from Director, IPE is recognition for the Chairman’s position in banking fraternity as strategic and iconic.

The objective at the core of award ceremony was benchmarking talent, in which leadership and contribution of the bank is well known, read the communiqué.

SRINAGAR, Sep 6: Joining the opposition to Zubin Mehta concert scheduled for tomorrow at Shalimar gardens, the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) today staged protest demonstrations in High Court premises.
Addressing the protesting lawyers, Mian Qayoom, the newly elected president HCBA said that holding musical concert by Mehta is an attempt ‘to crush the Kashmiri freedom movement’. “No Kashmiri should participate in the concert as history of Kashmir is all filled with very gory incidents inclu